I am very interested in the Apple TV but I'm sure my situation is not unique by any means. I live within the viewing market of my favorite sports teams, even while not actually living in their location. So I can't use MLB.TV or like services to stream my teams. And thus I pay $100/month to DirecTV for essentially two channels.
But there's one more thing. No Amazon Instant Video (Prime) and no Spotify means no consideration for me. That's not Apple's fault, I get that. But until those two things are on the AppleTV, I'm not going to try to figure out how to view my sports teams* and cut cable.
What about other would-be cord cutters? Where are you at with in deciding what to do with the new AppleTV?
*-I've tried before using Amazon Web Services and a proxy server to spoof my location but the process was way too involved to do every single game. So even if Amazon and Spotify come to AppleTV, there simply may be nothing I can do about the sports streaming blackouts...
But there's one more thing. No Amazon Instant Video (Prime) and no Spotify means no consideration for me. That's not Apple's fault, I get that. But until those two things are on the AppleTV, I'm not going to try to figure out how to view my sports teams* and cut cable.
What about other would-be cord cutters? Where are you at with in deciding what to do with the new AppleTV?
*-I've tried before using Amazon Web Services and a proxy server to spoof my location but the process was way too involved to do every single game. So even if Amazon and Spotify come to AppleTV, there simply may be nothing I can do about the sports streaming blackouts...